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# Explorer <TierLabel tiers="Enterprise" />

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As platform engineer or as developer, your applications and platform services will likely span multiple kubernetes clusters
or infrastructure components.  In order to manage and operate them you require a platform capability that
allows you to discover the resources from a single place.

Explorer is that capability that allows any platform user to discover platform resources from a single place
across all your kubernetes clusters.

![explorer](imgs/explorer-ui.png)

## FAQ

### Which journeys would be able to use explorer for?

Explorer is better suited for journeys matching the discovery of resources across the platform resources inventory.

### Which journeys would be better using other weave gitops capabilities for?

If you have a particular resources you want to manage, weave gitops offers single resource experience
for almost every resource.

### Which Kinds does explorer support?

Explorer support all Flux Applications and Sources CRDs

See [Supported Kinds](../configuration#kinds) for more details.

## Next Steps

Now that you know what Explorer is, follow [getting started](../getting-started) to quickly have a feeling
of what Explorer can do for you.